I’ve been thinking about faith, doubt and fear for the last few weeks. Pondering. Reading certain scriptures. Then Elder Cook mentions the very thing I’ve been thinking about, and quotes one of the scriptures I’ve been pondering:

For the Lord has not given the spirit of fear,
But of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

There were other things I needed to hear, but having him say that really sort of blew me away. It shouldn’t have (I’ve had this sort of thing happen many times), but it did.

Of course:
“Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you”
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge”
“Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD”
“and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord”
“And I command you to do these things in the fear of the Lord;”

For me it was Elder Eyring, (excuse me, PRESIDENT Eyring) speaking in Priesthood about staying up all night praying and getting an assurance of how to proceed BUT NOT an assurance on the outcome. I’ve always stuck those together, now I know I need to separate them!